BEIJING (Reuters) – China should not worry about being too heavily invested in the dollar and US government debt, because its dependence is not unique in a world with few alternatives, a senior official at China’s sovereign fund said.
TUNIS (Reuters) – Gunmen fired at random from cars in Tunis yesterday and inmates staged a mass jailbreak while leaders tried to prevent Tunisia from descending into chaos after the president was swept from power.
Projections for the sugar industry as outlined in the turnaround plan had indicated a huge production year in 2011 with a target of 359,000 tonnes, but the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will likely chase a less ambitious target given the ongoing problems.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Denying he was a dictator, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered yesterday to give up much-criticized decree powers a year ahead of schedule if post-flood emergency measures were implemented quickly.
Some 12 vendors who vend along Saffon Street will be placed in the La Penitence Market to allow for road works in the area but vendors are not happy with the short period of time they were given to relocate.
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) – Dozens of flood survivors desperate for news of missing relatives lined up outside a morgue in the town of Teresopolis yesterday as criticism grew of authorities’ response to one of Brazil’s worst natural disasters which has killed nearly 600 people.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government yesterday tabled legislation to remove obstacles to the death penalty and to allow for the creation of three categories of murder in T&T.
The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) yesterday said that the Celina Atlantic Resort lease had been cancelled as the holder had only paid one year’s lease since 2003.
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday said that his “political DNA” is indicating to him that he is ready to become the next PPP presidential candidate.
The PNCR’s presidential hopefuls yesterday laid out their plans for Guyana as they kicked off a month-long series of community visits to make their case to be the party’s candidate at the upcoming polls.
Officials at the John F Kennedy Airport, in New York on Thursday busted a Guyanese woman who attempted to smuggle over four kilogrammes of cocaine in milk cans.
Almost three years after it hoped to start up, lumber company Simon and Shock International Logging Inc (SSI), now under new management, has applied for environmental authorization to start a logging and sawmill operation in Region Nine.
A local construction company is at the moment carrying out sea defence concrete work at Turkeyen East Coast Demerara (ECD), an area which is usually flooded during high tides.
Maxine Cecelia Bax, the grandmother who the police said was found with cocaine concealed in the seat and back pouch of her wheelchair was yesterday remanded to prison.
At the Albion Court on Thursday, a woman was charged over possession of counterfeit US currency, which she allegedly used to a pay a vendor at the Port Mourant market.
A 14-year-old miner died after he was allegedly by beaten by two Brazilian miners last Tuesday evening at Chinese Creek, Puruni.
Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has announced the appointment of Joel Singh as its officer-in-charge of the Diamond Branch.
Michael Singh, 48, was discovered dead at his Durban Street home yesterday morning but there was no clear indication of how he died.
A minibus conductor was found dead at Montrose, East Coast Demerara (ECD) yesterday morning with a suspected stab wound.
Government has rescheduled the official launch of the International Year for People of African Descent (IYPAD) observances in the wake of concerns raised by several major African groups about the approved agenda,
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